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Nigeria has lost a legendary actress and a theatre icon in the death of Elizabeth Evoeme, popularly known as Ovularia, of the popular Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) sitcom, The New Masquerade. Aged 81, she died on May 5, 2024, in Port Harcourt, after a brief illness. She was born on December 1, 1942 in Calabar, though she hailed from Akabo in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State.
Almost a decade after these films were made, in 2002, Norimitsu Onishi, a New York Times journalist, coined the name "Nollywood."
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The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, has once again referred to the Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as ‘Giringori’. Giringori Akabogu is a comedy character popular in Nigeria in the 1980s in a television show, “New Masquerade”. The character was played by Chief James Iroha who died in February 2012.
The tears welled up. And then dropped. I did not bother to dab or wipe off. The same way it happened when I lost my junior brother, Gideon, three years ago. I had just confirmed her passing. “She was rushed to St. Nicholas Hospital, slipped into coma and unfortunately could not make it.”